Thomas Bruce White Sr. (March 6, 1881 – December 21, 1971) was an American law officer and prison warden.

He is known for solving the complex and notorious Osage murder case and later being warden of Leavenworth Prison in Kansas.

[2] Leaving school early, White traveled the country holding various jobs in Oklahoma and California.

[1] He resigned from the Rangers and worked as a special agent for the Santa Fe Railway and the Southern Pacific Railroad until 1917.

After his retirement from the penitentiary system, Tom served on a three-man board overseeing pardons and parole hearings for incarcerated persons in Texas until 1957.